PARASITOLOGY is...
The biological science of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them...

"Every living thing has at least one parasite that lives inside it or on it. Many, like leopard frogs and humans, have many more. There's a parrot in Mexico with thirty different species of mites on its feathers alone. And the parasites themselves have parasites, and some of those parasites have parasites of their own...

Scientists have no idea just how many species of parasites there are, but they do know one dazzling thing: parasites make up the majority of species on Earth. According to one estimate, parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one. In other words, the study of life is, for the most part, parasitology."

Introduction:
What are parasites?

A parasite is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on the living tissue of a host organism and which causes harm to the host without immediately killing it.

Parasites also commonly show highly specialized adaptations allowing them to exploit host resources ...
The parasitic mode of life is the most common on the planet, with representatives from all major taxa, from the simplest unicellular organisms to complex vertebrates.

Every free-living species has its own unique species of parasite, so the number of parasitic species greatly exceeds the number of free living species.

Parasite Questions & Answers

In the recent past, Parasitology.com fielded parasite related questions via its "Ask the Resident Parasitologist" feature- and answered them (as best was possible) using terminology, logic, and language understandable to that of the questioner- from lay persons to scientists.

We are looking for a new 'Resident Parasitologist'

If you are an accredited parasitologist and would be interested in becoming this site's new "resident parasitologist", we'd love to talk to you.

Our friend and previous resident parasitologist is unable to continue his position of answering the myriad questions coming into this site about parasitology related subjects- and so we are looking for another person to fill his void.

To see our archived questions and answers about parasitology, (from our previous parasitologist), and to get an idea of the kinds of questions you might be faced with as our new resident parasitologist, see our archives of questions and answers about parasitology here.

HEY PARASITE LOVERS:

This website also needs a BLOGGER! (a parablogger?)

If you know your parasites 'inside and out'- and want to blog about the subject and the science on this website, contact us and lets talk about it!

Provided you are a qualified parasitologist, we will let you have your say in this forum... a platform from which to spew parasitisms to the world!